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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-08-24

Robt. P. Porter in the Chicago Inter Ocean.
large portion OF the real work of
the departments in England is done
by what are known as "writers," who
are paid 80 shillings, or about $3.50
per week. These men are employed
by the hour, and temporary ten
penny" as he is called, is banded
about like shuttlecock from one de-
pa-tment to another. No matter
how much ability these men have,
they never rise, and some of them have
been known to remain thirty years in
the service at this rate. Marvin, the
author of "Our Public Offices" de-
clares that merit is a term not recog-
nlzed In the civil service of Great
Britain. Advancement above the line
proceeds by means of seniority, in
cessant reorganization, or influence.
The system, he says, "puts a premi-
UNI upon incapacity, and if it
makes a mistake now and again
in getting rid of a man of
merit, it always sticks fast to it's
noodles" The underlying vice OF
the British system is utter lack of am
bition, and idleness. The efforts to
kill time take various forms in the de.
partments. In some, newspaper
reading; in others, political discus
siors, and in others tipping. Many
of the government clerks, am relia-
bly, informed, keep liquor of all kinds
in their desks. and refresh themselves
behind the lid. A man has to be a
confirmed druukard before you can
dismiss him from the British service,
ii he happens to be q clerk. The WORK
required of him being practically
nothing, his habits do not interfere
with that, and his associates, as
rule make no complaints. The heads
of departments have no authority
over the clerks, for they come and go,
but the barnacles go on forever. No
supervisory visits are ever made to
any branch OF tho service, and the
clerks who cannot be removed are
masters Of the situation, and, as q
rule, laws unto themselves. Whenev-
er g. squirt of work comes on, enough
"ten-penny writer's" are put on to
do it,
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-08-24
Why an Austrian Shot Himself.
From the London telegram


A traglcal suicide, which has g. touch
of romance about it. has just occurred
at the prison of Karthaus near
Prague. Ayoung soldier named Kaz-
owsky was standing guard there.
In his early youth he had lost his fa-
ther, not through death, but in far
more melancholy way. His father
had committed murder, had been pro-
nounced guilty, and condemned to
twenty years hard labor. The young
son was then 7 years old and his fathers
features remained firmly imprinted
upon his memory, as well as the whole
painful impression of the event, which
produced q severe shock upon his
youthful mind.
While standing sentry before the
prison of Karthaus, and seeing the
convicts led past him on their way to
the open air, he recognized in one OF
the hoary criminals his own father.
He spoke no word, neither did he dis
cover himself to his father; but on be-
ing relieved from his post he quietly
loaded his gun and discharged q bull
let at his head. Dying he confessed
to his comrades the horrible discovery
he had made, and which had driven
him to seek death this own hands.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-08-24
Nobody Appears to Know Her.
Cor. New York Times.

Cor. New York Times.
At one of the tables in the Grand
Union dining room sits slender but
pretty-formed young lady with light
hair, which, with a little assistance,
would be golden, and a sweet sensible,
but rather girlish face She is &C.
companied by an elderly lady in
black silk, with a pardonable weakness
for head trimming. They are mother
and daughter. Papa owns county or
two up in Minnesota, and is at home
collecting his rents. Yesterday the
daughter was arrayed in a delicate
pink and cream dress, and looked
much more edible than anything on
the dinner menu. She represents
seven figures to the young gentleman
who induces her to become his, but
that young gentleman shows no signs
OF putting in an appearance. They
know nobody about the hotel or the
town here. They perforce drive alone
and drink Congress IN each others
familiar but non-stimulating COM
pany. The young lady at hone is too
great g. parsonage for any local swain
to lift his daring eyes to. Here. and
wherever else she goes, where the
"OA1o 10 OuIOAGiuS, SA0 WILL U0 uODOOy
IN particular, and is scarcely likely to
attract attention from anybody ex-
cept the professional fortune hunter,
who as g. husband is never worth the
powder requisite to blow him into the
oblivion that he SO honestly earns.
Mademo1selle now looks % at least.
The probability is that most of the
girls she grew up with are already fond
wives and happy mothers. She is un-
happy for the simple reason that
happiness does not consist in what
one has but in the qualification OF
reasonable hopes and desires. Verify
the dollar is not all it is melted up to
be, and the man who helps the heir
ess out in this little difficulty by
bridging the chasm, will be given q
monument much more expensive than
Miss Bartholdi's with O. grateful trib-
ute on the pedestal in letters as big
as q Coney Island advertising eign.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-08-24
Dat Straw for Stock.

In a recent report of conclusions,
reached through a long series of ex-
periments concerning che feeding of
oat straw, Prof. Sanborn, Of
Missouri, says that this straw is
mainly valuable as heat and fat
producer. 1t does not produce much
fat, because cattle will not eat enough
of it. 1t contains IA per cent. of d.
gestible albuminolds, or flesh formers,
and 40 per cent. of digestible carbo-
hydrates, or fat formers. Hence, to
use it with advantage and get the full
benefit Of it, it must be fed with food
Of directly the opposite kind, such as
oil meal or cOttOnseed meal. The
Professor found that thirty four
pounds OF oat straw and six pounds
of cottonseed meal gave the same
results as fifty pounds of the
hay, because cottonseed meal has
1872 per cent. Of albuminoids
and but 17.e per cent. Of carbohy-
drates, thus forming, with the straw,
well-balanced ration. Oil meal con-
tains 27.6 per cent. of albuminoids
and 27 per cent. of carbohydrates, SO
that pound more OF oil meal than of
cottonseed meal should be fed. The
cost of this food as compared with
hay at SIS ton, or of a cent per
pound, is an important question. 1t
is said to take twenty-five pounds or
it to make steer gain g. pound g. day,
or 81 cents daily to keep him in good
growing condition. But if by feeding
four pounds OF oil meal, worth IL
cents per pound, the same gain can be
made, and by feeding a proportion
ate]y less amount we can keep up the
weight, it will help out g. short crop Of
hay. But to the farmer who has not
and cannot get oil meal the fol-
lowing facts will be OF value: Clover
hay contains about per cent. of
albumin oids, tim othy contains So,
and oat straw 1 f. per cent; therefore,
it will be seen that ton ofclover hay
fed with a ton Of oat straw will be
equal in value to two tons of timothy,
because clover hay contains an excess
of albuminoids, and it is waste to feed
it by itself, as it is waste to feed oat
straw alone. A steer fed on the straw
long enough would starve, but when
fed with clover they are a well-bal-
anced ration, and make q poor hay
crop go much farther. It is clearly
that the food value OF oat
straw can be obtained only by feeding
with something that has an excess of
albuminoids and q deficiency of carbo-
nydrates. The farmers food Of this
class is clover hay.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-08-24
ABOUT THE FARM.

An Invalid's Reverie.
One who has been where have been
Of old but never more may be,
One whom never yet have seen,
And in this world may never see,
Has brought fresh flowers to me.
And, looking at these blossoms bright,
think Of other scenes and hours,
And see, with retrospective sight
Fair cultured blooms, and sweet wild flower
Abloom in Nature bowers.
Mid hedges green 1 seem to pass,
Where foX-glove rise, and biue-bells ring;
And over daisy dappled grass,
Where butter cups are poisoning,
stray where glad birds sing.
In clusters fair on prickly boughs
The fragrant hawthorn blossom blows;
Though level fields, where cattle browse,
The winding, purling river flows,
And slowly seward goes.
/ seem to hear the mellow notes
By which we mark the cuckoos flight,
And he ar, from countless feathered throats
The warbled lays of sweet delight
That ceased not till the night.
Above, around, all things are fair
Or fancy paints them so for me,
Who only sees these flowers SO rare,
Yet charmed and gladdened, seem to see
Scenes lit by memory.
-[Cassell's
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-08-24
No NondescrIpt NOthiDgs.
From the Boston Budget.


One of the visitors to a prom inent
Boston millinery establishment the
other day was q lady who was evil
IDENTIFY seeking an article of headgear
that was both neat and cheap; but
vino, t mixing it would be derogatory
to her dignity to state exactly what
she desired, consumed the time and
patience of the saleswoman by her in
spection of nearly every hat or bon
net in the place. She had one invari.
able comment as she returned each
article to the saleswoman, and that
was that it was ..too decided" what.
ever that might be. At length she
said with an air Of extreme conde-
scension and in the same unintelligi-
BILE phraseology: "What | would like
to see is one of those nondescript
nothings, you know what I mean"
The saleswoman had not the remot-
est idea what she meant, but, dis
gusted with the triher and her monot-
onous comment on what had been
shown her, replied ironically, 81 am
sorry, madame, / cannot suit you;
but we neither deal with nor IN non
descript nothings; on the contrary,
our goods and our patrons are all
very decided"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-08-24

the same qualifications, and there is
no herd of one breed made up OF COWS
alike IN capacity for either milk or
butter. Milk is variable substance,
and even when some particular COW
may be selected for experiment in the
production OF milk and butter she
will fail to give uniform quantity of
milk OF the same quality from one
day to another. The seasons iufu-
ence the yield, as is shown by the trial
of a COW selected for purposes of ex-
pertinent. Allowing two pounds of
milk to represent one quart, the
record shows that IN January from
fifteen pounds OF milk one pound OF
butter was produced while in February
one pound Of butter was made from
fourteen pounds ofmilk. These months
being winter months, when green
food is usually scarce, it would natur-
ally be supposed that in summer the
cow would give q larger quantity of
butter from a given quantity of milk
than she would in winter, but her rec.
ord was Fl pounds of milk to l pound
of butter in March, 10 pounds Of milk
for one pound of butter in April, and
% pounds Of milk for l pound Of but
ter in May. The quantity of milk re-
quired to produce q pound Of butter
during the remainder Of the year was:
For June, 81 pounds; July, % pounds;
August, 25 pounds; September, 22
pounds; October, Is pounds. Novem.
Der, 16 pounds, and December, 10
pounds. It does not imply that dur
ing the summer season the quantity of
milk yielded by the cow was less than
that yielded in winter, but that it was
not as rich in cream. These changes
were effected, not by the quantity Of
the food but by its quality, as the
cow had abundant pasturage IN June,
although it required 81 pounds of
milk to produce l pound of
butter during the month. No
vember to March are periods of the
year when COWS are fed on concentrate
ed food, and consequently they re-
ceive more attention from the dairy
man. The yield of milk may be less,
but the proportionate quantity OF
butter may be greater. The time of
calving also affects the quality, while
the severity Of the cold, as well as the
shelter and protection given, must
also be considered. Theexperiment
shows how difficult it is to estimate
upon the butter production of cow.
The food and it's quality is the most
Important feature o. management,
and the test of COWS for week only
may not represent the capacity for a
longer time. No matter what the
breed may be, upon the management
depends the value and capacity OF the
animal.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-08-24
FROM MISSISSIPPI TO ATLANTIC.
BY CHARLES j. BEATTIE.

Vicksbu1g is ours! our tents are here
BY MiselSsippfs wave.
Hail! our bright standard, cheer on cheer,
The flag that comes 10 save;
Wen break the yoke, we'll burst the CHAIN,
Set every Helot free,
Sweep Ger the mountains to the main,
With Sherman, to the sea.
Well march across the mountains crown,
Ger kenesaw's gray crest
And from its rugged height swoop down
Like eagles from the West.
Our arms Shal garner sheaves OF death
Across their fields of bloom,
Scorch like the deserts tOrr1d breath
The fatal dread simeon.
Well cross the river, ford the stream,
Pass Chattahoochee's flood;
Our bayouets now that brightly gleam
Wi Teddeu soon with blood;
Atlanta's gallantS soon snail near
The thunder OF our guns,
Her matrons weep with many q tear
The loss of rebel sons.
Sweep like resistless ocean waves,
Across the lated plain,
And leave behind a land of graves
Well peopled with the slain
On with the flag, roll freedoms drum,
Across the Etowah,
Proclaim that Federal hosts have come
To vlndicate the law.
Proud Charleston soon shall hear the roar
OF Federal thunders loud,
Her streets be red with rebel gore,
And black with battle cloud.
Before our arms let treason fall,
And whittier like gOurd
The men that fired on Sumter wall
Shall perish by the sword.
Ho Swiftly from the West we'll swoop-
Nor In our mission lag,
And make the naughty Southron stoop
To welcome freedoms flag,
Bright stars, fair StriDeS-blue, white ana red
Wave DER the land and sea,
In every heart, DER every head,
Dear standard Of the free.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-08-24
Regarding Your Particular Chat,
From the Mechanical Engineer

From the Mechanical Engineer
So-caIled easy chairs in drawing
room cars have given inventors a.
great deal of work. They have tried
to make chair which will fit every
persons back and failed. They al
ways will, for no two persons use
their backs in the same way, and there
is a wide variation in backs. Some
persons are uneasy unless the bear
ing comes on there shoulder blades,
others are still more so when it does.
Some wish to have the small of the
back supported, others want every
square inch OF their back pressed on.
The only way to do it is to have g.
lot of chairs in the baggage car, take
a templet OF every mans back when
he comes in, and pick out one that fits
him, then there will be no more growl-
ing.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-08-24
He Helped the Chaplain Out.
From the n. y Tribune

Gen. N. P. Banks tells story about
one OF his army chaplains which never
fails to "bring down" the G. A. r.
camp fires. The chaplains OF the reg.
iments during the war had charge of
the mails for the regiments to which
they were attached. The mail for the
regiments OF this particular chaplain
had not come to hand for many DAYS.
Every day from one-half to two thirds
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-08-24

Quantity of Milk Required for Butter.
How much milk is required to make
one pound OF butter depends upon SO
many circumstances as to render it
impossible to estimate upon any GER
tain quantity as the proper proper
ton. No two breeds of cattle possess
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-08-24

s~-A COLLIE dog was recently sold IN
England for 81, 900.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-12-19
4 FEMALE BANDIT,
How sho Carried Out aurderous vow {

How sho Carried Out Murderous Vow of
Yeogsaocs.
ST. LOUIS, Mo, Dec. 18.-Senora
Amastis Rubeo de PssCsders, female
bsndit of renown, was buried by the sid
Of her lover at San Antonio, Zacstecas
Mexico, yesterday. In esrly Womanhocd
her intended husband was killed by Fed
eral troops, and on MS grave she swore
vengeance. Her oath was to kill FIVE men
every year Of her life. She more than
kept it. Her first exploit was 10 rob the
Aguss Calientes stage near Zacatec:s
single handed. She drove the postillians
to flight, hailed. the stage, ordered sup
posed band Of assistants concealed In the
chaparrsl not to shoot unless resistance
compelled. The eight passengers gave
up a good booty. She continued q career
OF robbery that terrorized the citizens of
Sinslos and Sonora and enriched herself.
The authorities and troops seemed pow
erless. she bequeathed her fortune to
charities, dying natural death in OBJ
security.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-12-19

TRUTH is stranger than fiction. Our
dispatches from Bolton Saturday told q
tale that would seem an exaggeration in
narratives which are creations of the
mind. The Ssnctifcationists-as they
call themselves-must be mentally dis
eased. They must be sincere, for no
people would desert luxury and happiness
and undergo the hardship and drudgery
of the life lead by these queer people
unless they believed they were called upon
to do so by law higher than any human
ordinance. Some years ago there arose
near Searcy, Ark, sect calling them
selves Cobbites, or Purifcationists, who,
following the teachings of renegade
named Cobb, became so exclusive that an
outsider daring to intrude upon their
besstly orgies had his head taken Off and
placed upon q pole for his pains.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-12-19
should be msde on both sides and COM

bined and continued ef3rt made
to recover our lost ground. One
railroad manager gives it as his
opinion that lower rate than
cents & mile will not be made This is
untenable, with due Difference to the au-
thor of the statement. The railroads can
meke lower rate than 2 cents mile, On
certain kinds of tickets, to Texas, and
make money by it. There are other rail-
road men who loc k at the question differ
entity, and are in favor Of e re-
duced rate. This much the rail-
roads must prepare to concede
il anything is to be accomplished. The
people Should do their part and by form
ing local immigration agencies and pre-
pairing printed matter which the railroads
will be only too glad to distribute, put
these low rates in effect. Passenger men
should be put in the field and given q
latitude independent of the Texas pool in
order that their hands may be free to
meet competition. All these things
should be arranged for at once and the
work of upbuildlng Texas will commence
in earnest.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-12-19
GET DOWN TO WORK.

When the meeting opens at Dallas it
should get down to work. There will be
hundreds of delegates there who will be
in hurry to get home, and these cannot
afford to remain more than one day. 1t
will be no place to grind axes or air elo-
quence; there is work to be done which
must be done, and the matter Of "getting
before the people" should be deferred un-
til some other occasion. Plans
and methods for, securing i'm
migrants should be discussed and
considered; the best means of advertis-
ing the state arrived st andsthe co-opers-
ton OF the railroads secured. There is
no doubt that the people have been less
energetic than they should have been, and
there is no doubt that the railroads have
been derelict, If not unjust. Atonement
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-12-19
TO THE PUBLIC.

The management of The GAZETTE has
received complaints from parties saying
they had paid subscriptions to THE GA,
zETTE to one Skinner and had not re-
ceived the paper. We have no such
agent, never gave him authority to solicit
or work for US, have never received an or
der from him, in fact never heard OF him
before.
The public are notified that MIR. L,
Calhoun is the only regular authorized
travelling agent for THE GAZETTE, and
this Office will be responsible for sub
scriptions, ETC., paid to him only. Our
Iocal agents are known in their respective
localities, and are responsible to the sub
scriber until he gets the paper. Parties
wishing to subscribe for THE GAZETTE
are, therefore, advised to pay the money
to the local agent or send it direct, and
shun all so-called agents who are not
known 10 them SIS being reliabie. THE
GAZETTE cannot be held responsible for
the actions OF those who have no author
ity or permission TO represent it.
DEMOCRAT PUBLISHING Co.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-12-19

into the state. the population of Texas
would grow smaller and the money pro-
vided ct Dallas would be wasted.
The state has sinned grievously against
it's own interests. The roads have
sinned grievousIy against Texas.
Let both confess and repent snd
reform; confession of past
delinquenCies without repentance will
avail nothing. Except both do repent
both people and railroads shall suffer.
The blame is not on either alone, and
neither can accomplish anything in the
future without the cooperation of the
other. If the Dallas convention
is to be made nothing more
than war of elimination and
recriminstion, it had better never nave
been called; or, If either people or rail-
roads are to put all the blame on the
other, confessing and repenting nsught
for themselves, the hearty cooperation,
SO essential to success, will be lacking.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-12-19

WONDER If THE GAZETTE has forgotten thai
there is such q road as the Fort Worth and Rio
Grande, or such town as Granbury?-[Gran.
bury News.
The columns of THE GAZETTE are the
best answer to this complaint. Texas is
so large, and there are so many towns in
the state that the entire space Of THE GA.
zKTTE is taken up with the effort to &C
something for all, and not all for any one
town or road. And, for its age and
length, there isn't railroad anywhere
better able to take care of itself than the
Fort Worth and Rio Granae.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-12-19
TWO OUESTTONS-NOT ONE.

This question, stripped of all generalites, is
now before the people, whether the states an
thinning ration policy shall be formally and
effectually repudiated, or whether she CAT
afford to jog along in the present hum drum
manner, and see herself outstIipped in the
race of progress by less attractive but more
progressive states. The possibilities of Texas
are almost illimitable. With n her borders are
fertile lands in suff ,ient quantity to produce
the cotton supply of the world ald have mil
lions of acres left for corn, wheat and other
Agricultural products Texas can feed and
clothe a population ten or twenty times as
great as that she has and have an abup dance to
scare. No state in the Union can compare
with her In this respect, and it is a shame that
the world shou not be officially and authori-
tatively advised of these facts. All these con-
siderations will be brought before the Dallas
convention, concerted action will be had all
over the state, and 1t will be strange indeed If
the question Of immigration Is not dealt with
wisely by the next Legislature and the in
hospitable feature of the constitution elmi-
mated Dallas News.
There will be two questions, not one,
to be "stripped of all generalities" at the
Dallas meeting. One question relates to
the duty Of the people and the other to
the duty of the railroads.
"The states anti-immigration policy"
will, no doubt, and certainly should be
formally and eftectually repudiated;"
and the railroad POOLS policy OF discrimi-
mating in excursion rates against Texas
should be as formally and effectually re-
pudiated."
II the Dallas convention were to pro-
vide millions of money to advertise Texas
and the railroads continued to haul peo-
pie cut of the state at less rate per
mile than they would haul people